My antique show finds

**Bravo 20** · 08-23-2010, 08:20 PM

That's a great haul!!! Those photos are stunning.......everyday minutia for the soldiers! That is simply priceless! What a wonderful bit of history!! Oh, and the helmet is very nice as well.......

**RH1941** · 08-23-2010, 08:20 PM

Lol :d

**RH1941** · 08-23-2010, 08:30 PM

Thank you Bravo 20. I still have a lot of photos to look at .All the photos were military but 18 of when he went skiing at a place called Glungezer Hutte.

**Bravo 20** · 08-23-2010, 08:35 PM

I think in many ways the photos are really the best find of all......you can learn so much by studying original pics! I have in my collection 4 snapshots that my grandfather took at the end of the war showing German POW's including one SS soldier who is glaring at the camera....I get a very odd feeling looking at that photo because I know he was looking directly at my grandfather! If I had a scanner, I'd post them here!

**RH1941** · 08-23-2010, 08:45 PM

Bravo I agree looking at some of these photos you can see real human emotions. alot more then just the studio shots. If you can I would like to see your grandfathers photos. Gary

**Bravo 20** · 08-23-2010, 08:58 PM

Gary, I'll see what I can do about photographing them. I think perhaps if I can lay them flat under a piece of flat glass, they should copy okay. The edges are curled up, but they were like then when I got them all those years ago. The only photo that really bothered me was a dead German soldier that had been covered by hay. It surprised me that my grandfather would have taken a picture like that as when I knew him he was a very gentle soul, but who knows what horrors he saw? He only talked about his wartime experiences very briefly and most of the stories were humorous anecdotes.

Cheers,
Tim